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The Armory Show has announced its exhibitor lineup for the 2015 installment of the big perennial modern and contemporary art fair held in New York,  March 5-8. On board this time are 195 galleries representing 28 countries from around the globe. The 2015 edition, the fair's seventeenth, will take place as before, on two piers  on the Hudson River: Pier 92, devoted to modern art; and Pier 94, dedicated to contemporary art.

Within the fair, on Pier 94, a special exhibition organized by London-based curator Omar Kholeif, "Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (MENAM)" highlights works by emerging and established artists from those regions.

Could ArtPrize do what it did for Grand Rapids, Michigan in Dallas? That’s what the city is hoping — and that’s why they entered a three-year charter agreement to bring the art competition to the Lone Star State. The 2014 edition of ArtPrize in Grand Rapids covered every part of the city with art by both amateur and established artists, bringing in over 400,000 visitors to the city and creating a $22.2 million dollar economic impact.

“ArtPrize Dallas will create a lasting impact on the culture of Dallas by engaging and nurturing future artists and promoting a meaningful discussion of art and its role in society,” said Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings in a statement."

Christie’s International announced that they will be closing their Haunch of Venison subsidiaries in New York and London in March 2013. The gallery in Chelsea will close after its exhibition, How to Tell the Future from the Past, ends its run on March 2. The London gallery, known as the Yard, will be converted to a permanent exhibition and sales space for Christie’s private sales department.

Founded by art dealers Harry Blain and Graham Southern in 2002, Haunch of Venison represents and exhibits the works of emerging and established contemporary artists. The gallery’s name comes from the London courtyard, Haunch of Venison Yard, where it was originally based. Christie’s bought the gallery, which had branches in London, Berlin, and New York, in 2007. Haunch of Venison’s Berlin branch closed in 2010, the same year Blain and Southern left Haunch to start a new gallery, BlainSouthern.

Christie’s decision to shutter the Haunch of Venison galleries came as private sales have been gaining ground for the auction house. The restructuring will focus the company’s attention on those private sales rather than working as a primary gallery representing artists. Haunch of Venison has also withdrawn from the upcoming European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht.